In sum, as the headline at Climate Progress puts it, "Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Renewable Energy and Cheap Electricity." Not a bad day at the Supreme Court for the cleantech industry, in other words.

One of the frontlines in the battle to protect rooftop solar this year will finally be coming to a resolution in Nevada later this month. A growing chorus of diverse voices inside the state is engaged on this issue, advocating strongly for greater use of solar power and its shared benefits

We wrote recently about how, despite the urgent need for the world to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, they continue at “an eye-watering $452 billion every year.” Imagine if that $452 billion was used to promote a rapid transition to a clean, sustainable energy economy,...

Fortunately, audio of their unseemly strategizing was leaked, so hopefully their strategy will fail. The scary thing is when you realize that these types of conversations by the fossil fuel industry occur all the time, with the vast majority never seeing the light of day.

There's a lot happening in the area of distributed solar power policy in the United States, and a recent report, "The 50 States of Solar," by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center, helps us sort through them. Key findings include:

Evlondo Coooper, Senior Fellow with the Checks and Balances Project (C&BP) a national watchdog group (disclaimer: C&BP are clients of Tigercomm) is quoted in the Washington Post story after providing Mr. Alford the opportunity to explain why his organization accepts money from the industry which has negatively impacted communities of color.

We'll end on a positive note. According to the OECD, "Compared with the previous edition released in January 2013...total support for fossil fuels in OECD countries clearly exhibits a downward trend." That's good, and we hope that trend accelerates, until we hit zero subsidies for highly mature and profitable fossil fuel sectors as rapidly as possible.

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We agree with the conclusion reached by PV Magazine, that although growth in renewable power in the United States is increasingly driven by non-RPS factors, "[t]his does not mean that RPS policies are not important."

Here are some key points from a new study by the Brattle Group for NRDC, entitled "Advancing Past 'Baseload' to a Flexible Grid," which argues that far from being a problem, a higher share of clean energy is actually a great opportunity for a wide variety of reasons.

In sum, the future looks extremely bright for clean energy, and for cleantech more broadly. The question isn't whether these sectors will grow rapidly, but simply how rapidly they'll grow. On that, we'd argue that EIA is far too conservative (or pessimistic, if you prefer), while BNEF is quite possibly too conservative as well, although they appear to be much closer to the mark than EIA's typically bearish-on-renewables, bullish-on-fossil-fuels forecasts.

According to a new report by the Energy Storage Association (ESA) and GTM Research, the U.S. energy storage industry is on fire, having just "deployed 71 MW of energy storage in Q1 2017...up 276% from the 18.9 MW deployed in Q1 2016," and with a lot more growth on the way.

See below for video of Chris Brown of Vestas, keynoting the opening session on day two of WINDPOWER 2017, concluding today in Anaheim, CA. According to Brown, who is completing his tenure as Chair of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the next five years will be the "best five years of your life" for the wind power industry.

But wind and other major cleantech sectors rely on distribution-only or distribution-mostly strategies that leave most of the marketing communications (“marcom”) power of these tools on idle. This year, we looked at why that happens. A few external drivers explain a lot.